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William H. Matthaeus

Researcher at University of Delaware

Publications -  546
Citations -  34936

William H. Matthaeus is an academic researcher from University of Delaware. The author has contributed to research in topics: Solar wind & Magnetohydrodynamics. The author has an hindex of 93, co-authored 515 publications receiving 31310 citations. Previous affiliations of William H. Matthaeus include University of Calabria & University of California, Riverside.

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Emergence of very long time fluctuations and 1/f noise in ideal flows.

TL;DR: This paper shows the connection between three previously observed but seemingly unrelated phenomena in hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic turbulent flows, involving the emergence of fluctuations occurring on very long time scales: the low-frequency 1/f noise in the power frequency spectrum, the delayed ergodicity of complex valued amplitude fluctuations in wave number space, and the spontaneous flippings or reversals of large-scale fields.

The interaction of turbulence with shock waves: a basic model

TL;DR: In this article, an energy-containing model which couples the turbulent energy density and correlation length of the flow with the mean flow is developed, which is shown to increase the mean shock speed and decrease the efficiency of turbulence amplification at the shock.
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Heating of the solar wind by pickup ion driven Alfvén ion cyclotron instability

TL;DR: In this paper, a hybrid particle simulation was used to demonstrate that the AIC driven by the pickup ions couples to the solar wind, leading to an anisotropic solar wind distribution, which may contribute to enhanced solar wind temperatures at large heliocentric distances.
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Eulerian decorrelation of fluctuations in the interplanetary magnetic field

TL;DR: In this paper, a method for estimating the two-time correlation function and the associated Eulerian decorrelation timescale in turbulence is devised for interplanetary magnetic field measurements from the Advanced Composition Explorer and Wind spacecraft.